SFG Media Group

Who are they?

A quick web search reveals: “SFG Media Group is a digital content creation and distribution company using data science to empower journalists, writers and filmmakers.”

But who are they REALLY?

Well if their former employees are any indication, they are terrible people. Here’s an excerpt from a GlassDoor review:

Poor management and no concern for employees.

I was hired with a 2 week training period for a writer position only to find out that it was actually a try out. The people who hired me knew that I was quitting my job to work there but didn’t warn me that they might not take me after the 2 weeks training period (they also asked me to work over the week-end with no notice).

And how about their outsourcing habits? Well I spotted an ad from them on the WordPress job boards, offering $5 per page to build landing pages. Even if you cut and paste the layout with no other changes you’re looking at 20 minutes per page, which means they were offering roughly $15 per hour. I wrote them to tell them they need to increase their offer to $50/hr or better, as their current offer was insulting to all professional developers. The E-mail responses I got in response were incredibly hostile, let’s look at a few of them.

This one was interesting because he accuses me of being rude, after an uncalled for assault of hostility.

If you are not interested, just fuck off.

We have enough people interested.

Some people asked for 500 others asked for 50 some are doing it for 5

So, why don’t you get your head out of your ass and get over your
superiority complex and go fuck yourself or do something useful instead of
wasting my time with your stupidity and rudeness.

Here his raging tantrum increases in intensity

why dont you idiot read the email you sent me first time and see your
insults and shove them down your throat.
I dont want people to work for me for free, I want them to work for an
agreed on rate.. you are too dumb to understand that maybe because of the
air you breathing in whatever shit hole you live in.
if you dont like my behavior, fuck off and stop sending me emails.
people who are interested in working with me, they are doing it, but again
because you are a fucking arrogant scumbag you think you are better than
them, despite that your website is so shitty, you wont even qualify for a
$5 gig.
if it is after midnight, go to sleep, go watch tv, go work on your site, go
learn something…and stop wasting my time.
I know it makes you feel important because your life is that worthless and
pathetic, but..it wont get you anywhere,..so go do something useful with
your time.

Here is the actual contents of my first E-mail, do you see any insults? I don’t.

You are trying to take advantage of people and you should be ashamed. I hope that you meet with failure until you are willing to pay a reasonable salary for the work you’re asking for. You need to start at $50 per hour.

If you think that’s unfair, do the work yourself.

This one is interesting, his response has escalated from attacking me personally, to attacking my deceased mother or my imaginary sister. I think we can all agree that this sort of behavior is completely unacceptable for a grown adult. Again he acts like the victim as well, saying that I insulted him, but that never took place.

You again? You are like a rabid dog who won’t leave.
You are not a man, you are an asshole.
You sent me an email insulting me and my business and everyone who applied
for the job.
That’s an adult behavior? But replying to your insults is not?
I hope I m not giving you the idea that I give a damn about what you think
of me or my business, I just tried to be polite and give you the benefit of
the doubt, but obviously there is no reasoning with you,and you are not
reading my email or understanding them…just want to reply and spew your
poisonous bullying because it make your pathetic life more meaningful.
Just get your head out of your ass or out of your moms ass or out of your
dogs ass and fuck off and do something useful with your worthless time and
existence.

You should change your nickname from lion to a donkey, a very dumb donkey.

I replied to your insults with reasoning, with insulting you, your mom, and
your sister…unless they are prostitutes..so if you have any shred of
dignity and self respect, you would have fucked off already.

This is my favorite one. In this rant he accuses me of being part of ISIS and helping to kill people and destroy their houses, and talks about “digital threats”.

I don’t care…you see in 2006 israeli apartheid regime and terrorists
threatened to kill us and destroy our houses, and despite their war crimes
where they killed over a 1000 women and men and 300 child…we survived, we
did to cave to their threats and their war criminals went out crying after
being crushed along with their elite army units.
Your friends at isis threatened us and attacked us and killed many of
us..but eventually they were crushed and soon to be eliminated … so
digital threats from a coward bully like you are meaningless as much as
your existence.
Post them anywhere..but why don’t you post them with your real name, phone
number and address , don’t be a coward.
And send me the links..I might have few more minutes to spend dealing with
your bullying and stupidity..

Now you might think “How can we believe this stuff? It seems too insane to be true”. You would be right to be cautious, so for the sake of verification, here is an archive of most of the emails, including everything quoted here, and their respective E-mail headers including cryptographic DKIM signatures which can be used to verify the authenticity of these E-mails. sfg-media-emails.tar.gz

Conclusion: SFG Media Group are “Bad People”

You should decide for yourself, but if you ask me the evidence is overwhelming, these people are not the kind of people that anyone should want to work for or do business with. The marketplace is filled with honest and hard working people who pay decent wages and provide decent services, and most of them are fine places to work. SFG Media Group puts on a good front, but when you peel back the layers what you find is a loathing toward their fellow man, and behavior which nobody would ever tolerate. I hope you find this useful.